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Automated opt-in accessibility, is this viable?

AccessiBe, like other, accessibility overlays is a horrible scam waste of money. It promises to make sites 100% accessible. It not only doesn't, it frequently makes sites less accessible. Regarding ...
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Would an inline page search field (ctrl + F) be useful or not to users?

The Real Issue But the Find function is already perfectly visible to users. It’s right there with other critical functions like Copy and Paste under… say, where did…? You’re only scratching the ...
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Prototyping for data visualisation

I use Adobe Illustrator. Sometimes I do the charts by hand, sometimes I use the Chart tool — it's clunky but it works, most often I use a combination of both. This being said, you can't just uplode ...
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screen video capturing (usability test) on mobile

Get a Huawei Mate 8 phone. This has a bizarre input shortcut: double knuckle -- double tap, to start video recording, and shows all touches within the recorded video. I am not kidding. Double tap ...
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Would an inline page search field (ctrl + F) be useful or not to users?

I don't believe Ctrl+F is that unused. It's a very basic shortcut available in a wide array of applications: browsers, text editors (from Notepad to the full Office suite), File Explorer, etc. You ...
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What tools,methods, etc. Can I use for advanced prototyping?

I have used these tools before therefore I would recommend using them for wireframing and prototyping. Wireframing Sketch Balsamiq Mockingbird (Free) Framebox (Free) Prototyping FramerJS Flinto (...
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Most used UX tools

When I started learning how to do wire-framing to one of the app that I was designing " Healthy eating for diabetic patients" I tried several application. I am using windows and I can summarize my ...
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Survey tool to ask questions on individual pages - what are they called?

I've heard them called "website intercept surveys" (source) or "(targeted) website surveys" (source1, source2). Examples include Qualaroo and WebEngage.
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Survey tool to ask questions on individual pages - what are they called?

I believe the term you are looking for is In-App Feedback Form Doorbell.io is an example of that kind of feature.
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Why people use AdobeXD if it cannot generate (reasonably well structured) HTML and CSS?

What does it do Adobe XD is a wireframing and prototyping tool to visualize ideas. It makes it easy to quickly visualize an idea for an interface and build a simple clickdummy to test the interaction ...
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What is the accessibility of design tools? Any research or analysis of whether they meet accessibility guidelines?

Found a paper from last year's CHI conference titled Accessibility of High-Fidelity Prototyping Tools (PDF) in which different design tools are tested with screen readers. We assessed conformance of ...
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How should software tools interpret relative paths in settings files?

We have exactly this problem: a command line tool that takes a path to a config file and acts upon certain files referenced in that file. Our current approach is to treat relative paths as being ...
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How should software tools interpret relative paths in settings files?

Caveat: I'm a developer, not a designer. Unless you have a helper tool to help the user manage the config file, then IMO the config file needs to contain unambiguous file paths: use an absolute path ...
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Why people use AdobeXD if it cannot generate (reasonably well structured) HTML and CSS?

Answering your question, Why people use AdobeXD if it cannot generate (reasonably well structured) HTML and CSS? Adobe XD is a design tool for designing web and mobile apps. Adobe defines it as: &...
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Forgot name of tool for theoretical measure of form interactions

Sounds like you are looking for a software that can automatically analyse GOMS models. Should've guessed there are tools for that but it didn't ever occur to me to search for them. GOMS's Wikipedia ...
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Slowing down internet connection to better understand UX on slower connections?

What about Chrome devTools - there is "Throttling" on "Network tab", and also there is "Performance" tab with snapshots and visualizing the sequence of rendering. https://developers.google.com/web/...
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Suggestions on Collaborative Work Environments

The software industry is a really good place to look because a lot of us work with remote teams. I think invision has some cool things for collaboration - comment sharing and sharing of prototypes. ...
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collecting data for UX on a web application

There are a couple of analytics tools you could either copy (bad idea) or integrate (better idea). They are fairly easy to integrate so don't worry. Google Analytics: Google product so you can expect ...
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Survey tool to ask questions on individual pages - what are they called?

I have discovered a couple of further terms: On-page surveys (VWO) Feedback polls (Hotjar)
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Which methodology ensures good user exprience?

These guys did a thorough research and came up with the Design Tools Survey You should find all your answers here : http://tools.subtraction.com/
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Most used UX tools

Every tool has its advantages and disadvantages. I suggest you visit this site, and choose from there. There you can choose your tool depending on your project needs, and it has great reviews of the ...
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Would an inline page search field (ctrl + F) be useful or not to users?

I think that's will be a lot usefull for tech users, for example in a tech products ecommerce. A really good idea. But I think the user that ask doesn't wants to duplicate SearchInPage browser ...
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Would an inline page search field (ctrl + F) be useful or not to users?

You should ask yourself why. For five times. You need a search box. Why? Because users don't know how to use Browser search feature. Why? Because it's hidden and you can't help. Why they need it? ...
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Tool/ workaround for testing locally stored Webpage on iPhone

My route for this was to install XAMPP on a local desktop/laptop, change the settings to allow outside connections, and access the webpage through the local network. It's a bit of a pain, but if ...
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